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Thanks guys , we were in New Orleans last night and a friend of mine came down and met up with us . We were eating and I mentioned I had to buy size 38 waist jeans because my legs dont fit my relaxed Fit 36's. He said are you working your legs? I said yes, mostly just squats and dead lifts . He says " oh you should not do that , it's hard on your joints and spine to lift with weight on your back.". I just had to shake my head .

Today was kind of a sucky day. I stayed up to 2:30 am waiting for my daughter to return home from atlanta with her dance team in very nasty weather . Woke up at 8 am and drank two cups of coffee my wife brought me. We stayed in bed due to nasty weather and watched 4 episodes of Sparticus . Did not have any water until I climbed out of bed at 1:15 to lift. I mixed my scoop of Dymatize's 2x pre work out formula. Then mixed my two scoops of hydro mino for intra work out .
I had not eaten anything as I am going to give IF a second chance on my cut as last time I lost a little more muscle then I had liked. I'm going to take it a little slower this time and also use bcaa's more on my fasted time.

Wu for 5 minutes on elliptical
Squat
145x5+10
195x5+10
245x3x3
235x4x2. Was going for 5 reps each of these sets but did not have it in me

Dead lift
205x5 sumo style this set
305x5
355x4. Same as last, did not have an extra rep in me today

Leverage machine squat narrow stance
185+35 lbs x20
Last time 150 x20 was not a great challenge so I wanted to go for more today .
Will add 10 next time